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Alabama Baptists provides the definitive history of the dominant religious group within the state of Alabama from the first decade of the 19th century to the present.

Title Alabama Baptists : Southern Baptists in the heart of Dixie / Wayne Flynt. [electronic resource]
Publisher Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press
Creation Date c1998
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 687-705) and index.
English
Content Alabama Baptist Chronology -- 1. Confronting the Frontier, 1800-1845 -- 2. Taming the Frontier, 1800-1845 -- 3. The Work of the Gospel, 1845-1860 -- 4. War and Reunion, 1860-1874 -- 5. Building a New South, 1875-1890 -- 6. Revolt at the Forks of the Creek, 1890-1900 -- 7. Progressivism and Baptists, 1900-1920 -- 8. The Ballyhoo Years Alabama-Style, the 1920's -- 9. The Great Depression, 1930-1939 -- 10. War and Remembrance, 1940-1954 -- 11. Racial Religion, 1955-1970 -- 12. Race and Politics during the 1970's -- 13. The Fundamentalist Controversy in Alabama, 1980-1998.
Series Religion and American culture
Extent 1 online resource (xxi, 731 p. ) ill., map

Language English
National Library system number 997010701857405171
MARC RECORDS
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